Seminars - Methods in Use and visiting MBA class

A open invitation to two seminars taking place this week; one today at 2pm (Tuesday 23 April) and tomorrow at (Wednesday 24 April).

The first invitation via Prof. Séamas Kelly (UCD)
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Dr Veeresh Thummadi (researcher at Lero | The Irish software research centre) will present a CITO seminar, Tuesday 23 April 2:00-3:30pm (room E117, Smurfit). The seminar will be entitled:
"Method-in-use variation during methodology use: A multiple case study of agile and waterfall information systems development projects”
An abstract for the talk and Dr Thummadi’s bio can be found at the end of the message..
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The second invitation from Prof. John Mooney (Pepperdine) who has specifically invited our MSc Digital Innovation class to take part in a short series of MBA seminars with visiting US MBA students from Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business.
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Wednesday 24 April 9:00-1:00pm (room N204, Smurfit)
* 9:00-9:45am Prof. Damien McLoughlin (UCD) on B2B and/or B2C marketing and customer service for the EEA market
* 10:00-11:15am Neil O'Herlihy (Director of Go To Market Operations at Google) is coming in to facilitate an interactive workshop on market strategies for EMEA.
* 11:45-1:00pm
Prof. Eamonn Walsh (UCD) presenting his excellent lecture on "tax havens" and the realities of the Irish tax situation for US MNCs.
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I hope you are able to take advantage of these sessions.

Wireframe and Mockup Tools

Wireframe and mockup tools for sketching designs.

Start with pencil and paper sketches before moving on to digital tools such as:

• Microsoft PowerApps (may also be included as part of Office)
• Adobe Xd
• diagrams.net (formerly draw.io)
• UXPin
• Figma
• Balsamiq 
• wireframe.cc
• app.moqups.com
• invisionapp.com
• sketchapp.com
• Axure
• Justinmind
• Marvelapp/POPapp
• iRise

To use PowerApps go to Microsoft's Office software-as-a-service site and login with your @ucdconnect.com account which should already be provisioned via UCD.

https://www.office.com/

Study Trip to Brussels/Leuven 2019

Hi everyone

Welcome to the study trip. I look forward to meeting you all at the Irish College in Leuven (the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe -- known to all as the Irish College).
http://www.leuveninstitute.eu
See on Google Maps https://goo.gl/maps/GYrfDwsUhtK2

Plan to arrive and check-in to the Irish College, Leuven on Monday 18th March any time from 7am onwards.

Monday:

Our first session starts at 12.00 midday in the Irish College. Prof. Stijn Kelchtermans, from KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics & Business will be presenting on Technology Platforms.
https://feb.kuleuven.be/Stijn.Kelchtermans

The second session starts at 2.30pm also held in the Irish College. We'll be running a short workshop on Information Economics - the micro-economics of digital and information goods.

After this we will walk to the Health House showcase installation in Leuven for a tour at 5pm. The Health House showcases the future of health and care based on scientifically validated content and anticipating the impact that technology will have on this in future scenarios.
https://www.health-house.be/en/

Tuesday:

We start the day with a tour of the Living Tomorrow hub, a startup campus for innovative enterprises and where visitors can experience installations or imaginings of their products and services. The goal of Living Tomorrow is to help envisage, experiment and present how technology mediated changes may radically improve the quality of our future home, life and workplace.

https://www.livingtomorrow.com/en/about-living-tomorrow